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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Next week, the California Air Resources Board is expected to adopt strict new regulations based on the theory that the innovative technology sold by 3Prong Power and other companies may be bad for the environment. The board had voted in 1990 to require that at least 10 percent of cars sold in California to be zero-emissions vehicles by 2003.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By By partnering with these two industries. When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?"

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